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Utah Hates on Wine

Aug 22nd 2013

An advocacy group for wine drinkers has ranked Utah 51 out of 51 for American states (and D.C.) when it comes to loving on wine and wine drinkers. If you do the math, you'll realize that means that Utah is dead last in America!

According to the American Wine Consumer Coalition: "No state ranks lower than Utah when it comes to wine consumer friendliness. Utah wine lovers live under severe and arbitrary restrictions when it comes to access to wine and convenience."

The nationally circulated report is likely to deeply depress the state's hospitality, skiing, convention and restaurant businesses that have been trying for years to counteract the widely held belief that "You can't get a drink in Utah."

In case anyone missed the point, besides the dead-last ranking, the AWCC also gave Utah an "F" in wineliness, pointing out that the state: